Deep Brain Stimulation

In recent years, doctors have explored an unorthodox method to address cases of depression that haven’t responded to…

It’s the sort of story that you’d find in a Marvel movie, but with far less cool consequences. Doctors in Slovenia…

Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as…

These days, it seems you’re nobody if you’re not working on a way to merge machines with the human brain. Earlier…

In 2009, Gary Olhoeft walked into a Best Buy to buy some DVDs. He walked out with his whole body twitching and…

For decades, scientists have dreamed of how electricity might be used to change the human brain. By altering its…

“It sounds impossible but it’s closer than you may realize,” Facebook’s Regina Dugan recently told audience members…

Zapping the brain with small bursts of electricity in hopes of improving memory isn’t a brand new concept, however a…

How did a Massachusetts woman end up with two electrodes implanted into her brain? Why is the Defense Advanced…

Deep brain stimulation involves threading electrodes deep into the brain — it's invasive, but it's also an effective…

The short answer is deep brain stimulation (DBS), a targeted form of electrotherapy used to treat brain disorders…

While performing deep brain surgery on a woman with epilepsy, neuroscientists from George Washington University…

In 2009, Andrew Johnson, 35, was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease. Last November, and again in…

It was starting to get so bad for Ontario's Kim Rollins that her mother started to make plans for the funeral.…